System Structure of Shiraz Diabetes Information Registration – 2014

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ABSTRACT Introduction:In new millennium, people face new challenges in healthcare such as growing procedure of noninfectious illnesses. Among non- infectious diseases, diabetes and cancer have more prevalence than other diseases. Prevention goals realization, screening plans in the state health system and evaluating the efficiency rate of strategies relating to it is possible when national system of diseases registration to be created and complete and up to date data to be collected. This study has been conducted with the aim of examining Diabetes information registration system structure in Shiraz in 2015. Methodology: The present study is of applied type and its study method is descriptive. The study population includes medical documents departments of general hospitals and selected Diabetes unit of health centers. In this research, the required information was completed by checklist and through interview and observation. The obtained data were categorized and stated in the format of tables descriptively. Findings:Findings obtained from this research showed that less than half of studied centers for collecting data used manual method and the rest used semi- mechanized method. In the field of Diabetes data process, less than half of centers use international books for processing data. Almost all studied centers provide their information for patients and healthcare providers. None of studied centers used standard forms of Ministry of health especial to Diabetes disease. Also, it was specified that health centers collect all required data except specialized data of caring eyes and specialized data of leg care, but hospitals due to lack of special form of diabetic patients , only collected demographic data completely and other information of diabetic patients are recoded and stored with format similar to other patients. About method of distributing information, it was specified that all studied centers provide the information to the patient and healthcare providers, with this difference that healthcare centers provide information in the format of abstract and as table and diagram for higher authorities of the organization. Finally, that the follow-up method of diabetic patients in healthcare centers is performed continuously through phone but in hospitals the patient status follow-up after discharge is not performed. Conclusion:Regarding the importance of diabetes significance, designing and implementing diabetes clinical information system in hospitals by accurate planning and utilizing health information technology management domain experts could be an important step in improving patients care and control and prevention of diabetes.

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Afsaneh Danialy

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Afsaneh Danialy (2016). System Structure of Shiraz Diabetes Information Registration – 2014. International Journal of Advanced Biotechnology and Research., 7(2), 849-855. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-96321